Apple Now Calling AR/VR Headset Operating System 'xrOS'

[genovelle]

X. R. O. S. That's a lot easier to roll off the tongue than re-al-it-ty-o-s was.

Rolling off the tongue refers to how easy it is to say out loud. I had not considered this until it was brought up. xrOS requires much more effort to say and does not feel natural when pronounced. RealityOS does not suffer from the same issue.

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

So silly - realityOS was a banger of a name.

 

[PauloSera]

True. The Apple device isn’t VR however.

Yes, it is. Their mainstream AR device is still years away.

 

[dahacouk]

Noooooooooooooo! No! No! No! You silly people! Keep it simple! 😂

 

[Reason077]

Only if you want reduced peripheral vision and go flying off a mountain edge because a notification distracted you.

The device could determine easily enough when you’re in motion, and know not to distract you with notifications.

And any good AR/XR product should hopefully not reduce peripheral vision any more than ordinary ski goggles or glasses!

 

[enterthemerdaverse]

The device could determine easily enough when you’re in motion, and know not to distract you with notifications.

And any good AR/XR product should hopefully not reduce peripheral vision any more than ordinary ski goggles or glasses!

Eeek. Do not want to believe software or GUIs can react as fast as you can while skiiing at high velocity. We cannot even get reliable smooth scrolling in Safari.

Please do not rely on software when it comes to potentially dangerous physical activities.

 

[TVreporter]

XR means Expensive Reality

 

[Aeolius]

It's spelled xrOS but it's pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove...

 

[topdrawer]

apple please release this thing already so we can stop seeing that stupid concept render.

 

[hippopotamusglorypig]

Apple needs to make a 3D Printer.

Just fire up the Xeros machine.

 

[yooooo]

the most popular AR XR toolkit now is XRI. Apple is just following the name term. XR here means, AR/VR.

 

[_Spinn_]

I’ve tried the HoloLens and it is pretty cool. Interested to see what Apple can do.

 

[Jensend]

VR fights a losing battle with the inner ear. It has limited used and limited potential as a result.

if people are using a VR roller coaster app, of course most people will experience some degree of motion sickness. But there are a ton of great experiences that either don’t require character locomotion or can use teleport movement. Those experiences can be much less nauseating than a 3D game on a TV. And even for games where smooth locomotion is necessary, you can still play them on a virtual screen within VR.

The most viral VR videos tend to be people falling or running into things, and I think that has unfairly skewed peoples’ perceptions of what VR is and can be.

 

[dogstar]

Close but the actual name is XXXrOS… the future of VR is porn! Apple knows where its bread is buttered!

 

[scrapesleon]

Of All the time they had that’s the software name they could come up with

 

[macsound1]

Apple has all kinds of internal naming schemes.
What they’re calling it now has almost no impact on what it’ll be called upon release.

 

[funkboy]

What is it with Apple continuing to name their operating systems after Cisco network operating systems?

 

[richinaus]

True. The Apple device isn’t VR however. It is an AR device, but that still comes with the issues I outlined a few posts above.

When I read these debates over all the years, enthusiasts really are not looking at the first gen devices but looking forward to when AR can exist in something that looks like regular dress or vision correction glasses.

That’s extremely difficult. For a start you can install a powerful SoC in dress glasses. So no A series or M series chip. The processing would have to be on the iPhone or Mac which would stream AR elements to the glasses.

Then we come to the battery, sensors and cameras. Dress glasses have very thin frames and we really can’t get a battery in there that could last more than an hour. All these add bulk.

Finally displaying the AR elements on glasses requires a projector like Google Glass had, which means the AR imagery would be ghost-like and lacking detail.

High resolution and high fidelity AR requires a headset. That comes with all the usual uncomfortable problems that mixed reality headsets do. Less disorientating than VR, but still having all the usability and technical issues outlined not just by myself but also on VR/MR review sites.

or just use AR on your phone and the headsets will be for development and enthusiasts for the forthcoming years.